18 Facts About Theresa Grentz

Theresa Marie Shank Grentz was born on March 24,1952 and is an American college basketball coach.

Theresa Grentz's coaching career spanned five decades, with over 680 career wins, multiple national and conference coaching awards, and a national championship.

Theresa Grentz is a member of the Women's Basketball Hall of Fame and the Naismith Memorial Basketball Hall of Fame.

Theresa Grentz led Rutgers to the final AIAW national championship in 1982, after which Rutgers moved to the NCAA and joined the Atlantic 10 Conference in 1983.

Rutgers won eight Atlantic 10 regular season and four Atlantic 10 tournament championships and appeared in nine consecutive NCAA Tournaments, and Theresa Grentz earned four Atlantic 10 Coach of the Year honors and three national honors.

Outside of college basketball, Theresa Grentz was head coach for the United States women's national basketball team for several international competitions from 1985 to 1992, including the 1992 Olympic bronze team.

Theresa Grentz intended to go to college out of state, but when she was a high school senior, her family's home was destroyed by a fire, so she attended Immaculata College, then a women's college, closer to home.

Under coach Cathy Rush, Theresa Grentz helped Immaculata win three straight AIAW National Championships between 1972 and 1974.

Theresa Grentz scored over 1,000 points in her career and earned three first-team All-American honors.

Theresa Grentz was named the AMF Collegiate Player of the Year.

In 1973, Theresa Grentz was named to the team representing the US at the 1973 World University Games competition in Moscow, Soviet Union.

In 1995, Theresa Grentz was hired as head basketball coach by the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign.

Theresa Grentz was selected as the head coach of the team representing the US in 1985 at the William Jones Cup competition in Taipei, Taiwan.

Theresa Grentz served as coach of the USA team at the 1990 Goodwill games, and the 1990 World Championships.

Theresa Grentz served as head coach of the 1992 Olympic team in Barcelona, which won the bronze medal.

Theresa Grentz coached the US World University Games team in Toronto in 1989 before heading the 1990 US World Championships team in Malaysia and the US Goodwill Games team in Seattle.

In 1990, Theresa Grentz was the head coach for the USA National team at the World Championships in Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia.

In 2012, Theresa Grentz founded Theresa Grentz Elite Coaching, a basketball education program for children and coaches.